Denver, CO asked in Family Law for Colorado

Q: My wife isnt getting her court ordered visits with her daughter.

My wife has a 3 year old daughter from a previous relationship that, due to her history with drugs, has lost her parental rights and they were allocated to the paternal grandmother. In the final orders from the court she is supposed to get 2 supervised visits for 2 hours each every week with her daughter. Either through a visitation center or with an agreed upon 3rd party supervisor. We can not afford a visitation center due to the passing of my mother in law and the loss of her income. The father and grandmother will not be accommodating at all. We are lucky to get a response about setting up a visit and if we do they are telling us to go to a visitation center. Most of the time they dont reply for days. We have been trying for months and they will not let her see her daughter they always have an excuse, if they reply within several days.

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John Hyland Barrett III
John Hyland Barrett III
Answered
  • Louisville, CO
  • Licensed in Colorado

A: Your options are to comply with the existing orders or seek modification of those orders. It seems the order is for a visitation center unless there is an agreed-upon third party supervisor. Since there is no such agreement, you need to use a visitation center. If that is not practicable, you can request the court to modify that requirement. Depending on the facts, the court probably will keep the existing orders in place, especially since you have not been complying with them.

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